Mariupol residents are seeing their homes demolished and resold. Researcher Ilvija Bruge breaks down her investigation in our latest Bellingchat Premium episode on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/how-ma...

NEW: A @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social analysis found dozens of cases in recent months which officers deployed "less lethal" weapons in ways that flout the government’s own rules — like aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents near children.

Criminology students from the University of Texas at Arlington re-examined the case of Cynthia Gonzalez, whose body was found south of Fort Worth in 1991. Their work led to an arrest this month.

"[A]pp that lets [ICE] instantly scan a license plate, adding it to a database of billions of records." "[I]nformation such as driver license data, [..] marriage records." "[P]owered by both Motorola Solutions and Thomson Reuters." #USA #Transportation #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The operation, which took place late Saturday and early Sunday morning, focused on a site near San Pedro Avenue and Basse Road.

hell yeah

Streets have been renamed, Ukrainian monuments removed, and murals painted over. Bellingcat investigates how apartment blocks in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol have been demolished to make way for a new Russian suburban utopia… www.bellingcat.com/uncategorize...

Russian state media are today alleging that a Bellingcat reporter was involved in an attempt to hijack a Russian fighter plane. We would like to make clear that Bellingcat had absolutely no involvement in the alleged activities and the accusations towards us are entirely false.

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

"I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys."

All these years later we’re still learning the extent of Whitey Bulger’s brutal wake in New England. Life was so cheap for his crew.

Social media footage and satellite imagery show killings as Rapid Support Forces took over Al Fashir (El Fasher). Bellingcat geolocated one incident on the city’s outskirts and showed it to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Noem is not being truthful. And @propublica.org has the receipts: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Major General Ronald Burkett orders the national guards of all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and US territories to form “quick reaction forces” trained in “riot control”, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray

in Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone plays a supercop from the violent 1990s frozen in time and sent to the future. He winds up fighting a group of terrorists until he realizes they're just trying to steal food, at which point he refuses to continue attacking them

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Russian flag bulker Zaid (sistership of Zafar which was sanctioned for links to Houthi financier Said al-Jamal with "initiatives in Russia": including arms procurement & plundering of Ukrainian grain) transited Bosphorus toward Med carrying stolen wheat from occupied Sevastopol likely to Alexandria

New satellite images show the scale of demolition that has occurred on the East Wing of the White House in less than a month.

Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Update: TikTok sent us a comment saying our story “deliberately distorts and sensationalizes how we respond to legal requests.” They again did not answer our Qs about whether they’re sharing data with ICE, or why it is no longer their policy to tell you before they give the government your data.

"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world. Spend enough time online, and you will see that not only is this cheaply rendered synthetic content everywhere; it is quietly shaping culture"

From opposing Putin to raising funds for a neo-Nazi paramilitary group, this is the digital footprint of one Russian man with a shifting political ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Awesome long read on the Kinahans referencing our work @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social “But in 2024, Bellingcat, the open-source-investigations team, published a colorful story about how Kinahan, Sr., had left hundreds of traces of himself online”

LAPD wants permission to shoot journalists working at protests. inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants... Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social

Sobering report from my @doctorswithoutborders.org colleagues in Port-au-Prince: Civilians in Haiti are caught in deadly, escalating violence. Many people have lost access to medical care amid a territorial conflict between armed groups and the police. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/civil...

Two journalists are set to be tried in Kentucky this week. Their crime? Covering a protest of the immigration detainment of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Soliman’s lawyer called it a “cruel irony.”

Psyched to finally read this @praddenkeefe.bsky.social

Our latest on the Kinahan Cartel @conplnk.bsky.social @beaudonelly.bsky.social @johnmooneyirl.bsky.social

lol lmao sigh www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BBC News - Woman in Spanish cold case identified after 20 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

The more I look at human rights violations, democratic backsliding and the rising tide of aggressive populism, the more I'm convinced that we're not talking enough about the role of corruption in all of this. Corruption is the glue that sticks those three phenomena together.

The longtime mobster known as "The Cheeseman" died on Sunday, according to an obituary. He rose through the ranks of the Patriarca crime family and took over leadership roughly eight years ago: https://www.wpri.com/target-12/carmen-the-cheeseman-dinunzio-reputed-mob-boss-dead-at-68/ 

Trump making Gadaffi's UN speech look normal.

"Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/i...

NEW: CBP has been funneling DNA from US citizens—including kids—into the FBI’s crime database. Nearly 2,000 Americans swabbed, many with no charges. Once for violent offenders, CODIS is becoming a mass-surveillance archive. analysis by @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social

RIP to a great one. youtu.be/vZ9DUVyljnI?...

Tramell Tillman of “Severance” became the first Black man to win outstanding supporting actor in a drama series. As a first-time nominee, Tillman used his acceptance speech to pay tribute to his mother: “My first acting coach was tough. But all great mothers are.” https://wapo.st/48f8MDY

On the manhunt @robinsteinnyt.bsky.social has been monitoring police scanner chatter, and it's - as usual with these events - insane. It included chatter about police searching for a man with a prosthetic arm in a hospital (This was also a plot thread in Twin Peaks) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

The fourth and final victim in the decades-old Bear Brook murders in New Hampshire has been identified, officials announced Sunday, a major breakthrough in one of the state’s most enduring mysteries.

The largest aid flotilla in history has been attacked twice in two days whilst in port in Tunisia. Open source analysis suggests an incendiary munition is to blame, contradicting official statements. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

Countdown to this being dismissed as an AI fake.

Trump’s Takeover of DC: Traffic Stops Turn Into Immigration Arrests for Delivery Riders and Workers www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

One of the most exciting initiatives that we've launched at @bellingcat.com this year is our Open Source Challenge page. Each month, you get a set of five new challenges to solve. They're perfect practice for students, practitioners, and educators. challenge.bellingcat.com

This news follows an announcement in mid Aug that Erik Prince’s firm Vectus Global is sending 200 foreign contractors to Haiti to help combat gangs (link to a Reuters report on that below) apnews.com/article/un-h...

NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Congratulations to @stevanzetti.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee (of @bellingcat.com) for winning the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award, small newsroom category from @journalists.org, for a series of articles identifying online extremists. awards.journalists.org/entries/open...

Our Council Transcript Search tool has proved popular. Interested in what goes into building a tool like this? Listen to our latest Stage Talk on podcast platforms. The creator of this resource, @galen.reich.me.uk, shares his tips for creating a sustainable research tool. rss.com/podcasts/bel...

Finding the truth about conflicts in difficult to access regions is a challenge. Read as we take you through the processes required to identify and verify what is really happening in a conflict, using the recent violent uprisings in Manipur, India as an example. www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

If you’re from the South or a movie freak -or both like me- this is a wild development. The folks at the Gone South podcast have been covering this since investigators exhumed Pauline’s body. open.substack.com/pub/jedlipin...